Final words

Final words... well it's difficult to sum up a year particularly now, being back at home has gven our year in Korea a dreamlike quality, luckily we made some wonderful friends so I know its still real!  I'll give it a go ...

Alcohol, Balli Balli, Cute, Dokboki, English, Family Mart, Gangnam style, Hwa-Jeong, Internet, Junior N, Kimchi, Lack of wildlife, Meat bbq, Noraebang, Octopus, Pagoda, Quick, Ramen, Study study study, Tiny dogs, U.S, Vinyl bars, Weather, Xtreme fitness, Yut Nori, dmZ.

I could go on ... People, Apartments, Lack of wildlife, Kickboxing, Coffee, Smart phone, Festivals, Everland, Family mart, Fish market, Couple clothes, Lenseless glasses, Kimbap Heaven, Jeju Island, Jimdak, E mart, Makoli, Seoul, Hangeul, Hiking, Rice cakes, Hangover, Fried Chicken , Pickle, Scrabble, Snow, Burger Bs, Old Rock.......
I think thats enough Kamsahamnida!

A belated last blog!

I know this is far too late but I thought this blog deseved a final entry. We left Korea at the end of November after a manic two weeks packing, cleaning and saying our goodbyes. Packing up our lives even after just 1 year took far longer than I expected and we literally didn't sleep more than a few hours over the last few days! As well as getting ready to leave Jack had his fight a week and a half before we left. Which he won! It was well deserved too, after months of training hard and weeks of stressful preparation. 

Team Jack!

The ring

On the last weekend we had a final night out in Hongdae which was great fun and messy as usual. Although I don't seem to have any pictures documenting it, probably a good thing! Our final few days at work was great, they made a real effort to give us lovely farewell party and our boss gave us some great gifts as you can see!

Goodbye work party.

Velour Juicy Couture tracksuit  and Fila top, our boss has taste!

Lantern Festival

We went along to the Lantern festival down at the Cheonggyecheon stream at the weekend, it was pretty however you can't tell from the pictures but it was heaving, felt a bit like being in a herd of cattle ....

Shrek

For Halloween we were asked to dress up for school, I played it safe as a witch but Jack put in the extra mile and went as Shrek! The kids loved it, (although some of them kept calling him Hulk) and he got a pizza voucher from the school for his efforts :)

Seoraksan

I have definitely been neglecting this blog a bit recently as our time here is coming to an end pretty shortly. Our final trip was to Seoraksan, kindly our lovely friend Ji arranged a condo for us to stay in and we had a fun weekend in the mountains. Although, to say it was busy would be an understatement, I have never seen so many 'hikers' in all my life! We sufficed with what I would call a walk, still there were some pretty views.

Lovely mountain view

Green sausage

Green tea cake, green tea cappuccino, green tea ice cream .... green tea sausage?!

Nope, chilli sausage thank goodness!

Global Gathering in Korea

After a couple of interesting experiences at Korean festivals we decided to give it one more go at Global Gathering and this time we were pleasently surprised! The festival was at Carribean Bay, usually it is a waterpark but the water had been drained out for winter, this made for quite a surreal setting, lots of pirates and waterslides alongside drum and bass and dance music! We made some new friends and saw a few acts including London Elektricity and Orbital, both of whom were great, so great in fact Jack felt the need to go and shake their hands, luckily he didn't get thrown out! We ended up back at home at 9.30 on Sunday morning with a pair of flashing Minnie Mouse ears .... how Korean!

London Elektrcity

Alan!